04/25/24 THE BLESSING LINE

04/25/24 THE BLESSING LINE

 DON'T GET OUT OF THE BLESSING LINE
The blessing line is not a line (queue) of people looking for, "health and wealth" from God, but the people who are aligned with God because they love Him, and therefore their blessing is a right relationship with Him.

(I hope, as you read this, that you see and understand that these principles are Biblical. I did not take time to reference each point, but if you have questions, let me know.)

Being in the blessing line is being where God wants you to be. Being where God wants you to be may not seem like a blessing, and not everything that happens to you while you are in the blessing line may be a blessing, in and of itself. We live in a fallen, sinful, hostile, godless world and bad things happen, even to godly people.

The bad things that happen to godly people may come to them because of their own choices or because of other people's actions or because of Satanic attacks, but if we are living by faith, God sometimes allows bad things to happen to us, for His glory and for our good or for the good of other people. Consider some of the Bible people who were in the blessing line but suffered bad things:
Old Testament... Abel, Noah, Abraham, Lot, Job, Joseph.
New testament... John the baptizer, Jesus, Peter, John, Paul, along with other men and women of God.

Being in the blessing line does not mean that everything that happens to you is good, but it does mean that God works everything that happens in your life for good. Sadly, not everyone (including some who are in the blessing line) responds in a positive way (faith way) to the trials of life. To be irritated, angry, negative about the path, down which God is leading you, is not a step of faith. In fact, it is a step of rebellion, which must be turned from or it will lead to another step of rebellion. Simply choosing to be negative is rebellion.

Sometimes God tests us with trials, but if we fail to react in faith, then God may give us another opportunity to take the faith path. It is not unusual for God to give a person opportunities to overcome a trial. But to continue to respond in a spirit of doubt, anger, complaining, whining, crying, moaning and groaning is a rejection of faith and therefore a rejection of God. That which is not of faith is sin.

Faith's response to testings and trials of a believer who is in the blessing line includes; expectancy, trust, confidence, rejoicing, patience, praise, thanksgiving. Faith's responses are not given with gritting teeth, clenched fists, scowling faces, or inner rage or negativity.

If you are in the blessing line and God leads you down a difficult path, your reaction to your trial will determine what you will encounter next. Your faith may encounter other heavy trials (attended by God's blessings), but God intends those trials to perfect you and your faith; or your faith response may bring you deliverance from that trial, at which time more of God's blessings will be given to you. You will move from faith to faith.

A failure response will lead to another trial, giving the believer the opportunity to meet the next text with faith. If failure follows the previous failure, then the you will eventually move from the blessing line to the rebellion line. God will still reach out to you and God will even bless you, but your life will not be a life of faith and blessing. You will not be in line for the good things God had intended for you. You will miss the plan God has for your life.

The person who has gotten out of the blessing line needs to repent and return to faith in God.